"By the way, I am not rich. I am a poor economics student who will graduate with loans to pay."

Well, then you will graduate a poor sucker. You're so divorced from reality and imagination that you can't even suggest a viable solution to the mess which is our current economic situation?

How about this for a economics lesson: Ever heard of a thing called GREED?

Our country could use:

- A wealth cap to regulate greed. Nobody NEEDS more than 10,000,000.00 to be happy. Anything in excess of 10 mill would go directly back into infrastructure, health care and schools. If you disagree, you should take a long look in the mirror. Arguments of economic motivation within capitalism fall flat here: People will always want to pin their wealth of 10 mill to the wall. Excessive greed is the fatal flaw of capitalism.

- Being able to decide exactly where Federal and State taxes are spent when you file each year. (spending power back to the people, really)

- The stripping of corporations of having the right as individual people under the constitution.

- Outlawing corporate/lobbyist contributions to any political candidate or govt. employee.

- Zero federal funding to churches and their lunatic beliefs (purely a evolutionary decision here)

To explain things further:

If there was a 10 million dollar wealth cap implemented today, do you think the American people would take to the streets in protest? No, because such a small amount of them have any money to begin with. In fact, almost all of them have debt. Yet even individuals can't declare bankruptcy like a corporation can. Even more so, almost everyone's standard of living would improve if the excess earnings were properly funding education, health care and infrastructure.

As far as religion: How much federal money gets donated to Evangelical Christian groups compared to Buddhists ? There's your discrimination. The Govt. should have nothing to do with the church.

Corporations: We could still set them up fairly protected without granting them the full rights of a individual person.

The American people do not have spending power, those who are voted in posses this. There is a huge difference. Who would you say Congress is voting for? The people, or the corporate special interests? What is so threatening about people on a individual level deciding how their income taxes are spent?

Voting in our country is an illusion. (so is our economy for that matter) Unless maybe you think George Bush actually won in 2000? Our current dynamic is a catch-22. The kind of reform I would like to have pass would never be passed by those who benefit from it being corrupt now. You can't expect a corrupt institution to regulate itself.

Above all, I'm not here to argue about the specifics of our Constitution. I'm here to argue about what is right and what is undeniably wrong and what I believe would be best for our society as a whole...not what's best for a over-privileged few.

Is a mental disease for those unwilling to accept reality. The fact that a majority of the American populace believe in things which can not be proven is as disgusting as any other "faith" historically forced upon the general populace like...oh, the earth is flat, the sun revolves around earth or more recently: The rapture will happen within our lifetime, etc. If humans keep believing in fairy tales, they don't deserve to evolve. Oh wait, they don't believe in that either! I suppose I should just accept that the world is 6,000 years old and humans walked with dinosaurs. Sure! The Koolaid tastes great!

Are a mental disease. Pure and simple delusions of grandure. I refuse to pander to the masses and approve of such obvious lunacy. God does not exist: It is a human construct. The negative consequences of such lunacy dominates all that is most important to humanity's survival. To deny this is to be ignorant to the proven facts of history. Although most religious people like to ignore reality, it is their calling/brainwashing. I make no apologies in offending the religious. I am not a coward: I am a proud Atheist who will not be intimidated by the lies, intimidation or ethnocentric views of any "faith". I do not tolerate the most negative influence upon the progression/survival of mankind...not now, not ever.

Seriously, who gives a fuck who eats what...I don't care if a presidential candidate eats kale smoothies or raw pork: Nature rules all, and sustenance is up to whomever is eating. If you disagree, why not try and convince a cat to go veggie, or a shark to eat tofu.

It's not diet which is the issue here, it's the outright lunacy that a presidential candidate has to blather on about some fucking imaginary friend in the sky to gain the confidence of a apathetic, brainwashed populace to get "elected". It's pathetic and absurd. Am I angry about this? YES. Should you be? YES!!

Religion started when a caveman couldn't explain a natural event? Thunder, floods, sunlight, eclipses, plagues, etc.

When will religions stop demonizing sex when it is the most natural act for any life form on our planet?

When will religions stop denying science (the last hope of mankind)?

When will religion stop lying to massive amounts of people about fictitious events and using those lies to justify violence and/or ignorance?

I beg everyone to reexamine their beliefs for the benefit of everyone, including themselves. The time of lies and folklore need to end.

I know, right!? Since when did any separation of church and state exist? It's bad enough that these lying fear-mongers can preach their bullshit, but the fact that we have to bankroll it is infuriating!